The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.

Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.